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2000-02-18 Thread eric-engle
H! Thank you for patiently listening to my rants. I cannot run fetch. I shall spend some time trying to see if i can nonetheless upload. I do have stuff to upload, and think you will like what i've created. The net was paralyzed on the other side of the atlantic for about a day. Or two. There

OODL: Re: [opencard-digest V1 #241]

2000-02-18 Thread eric-engle
Hi! Well, I tried and determined that I need to ask to whom I can send my creations as attachments. I presume to Alain, Uli and Mr. Derobertis? You shall all be getting a stocking stuffed with 1) a nice working art palette which will let you draw to your hearts content using the metaCard

OODL: FTP and web-paralysis

2000-02-18 Thread Alain Farmer
I cannot run fetch. I shall spend some time trying to see if i can nonetheless upload. I do have stuff to upload, and think you will like what i've created. Alain: It is perplexing and unfortunate, Eric, that you cannot FTP back-and-forth with our server. Uli: ... use Anarchie ... Alain: Is

OODL: Eric contributions -- Re:Eric

2000-02-18 Thread Alain Farmer
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I tried and determined that I need to ask to whom I can send my creations as attachments. I presume to Alain, Uli and Anthony? Alain: If you send it to me, then please send it to my personal mail account. Not the Yahoo one. In other words, this one:

OODL: Licence to use for code - Re:Uli

2000-02-18 Thread Alain Farmer
Uli: I have just gotten in contact with Richard Stallman of GNU to investigate whether there was a way to use the GPL or a GPL compatible licence for FreeCard's code ... Alain: Great initiative, Uli. Uli: ... and I am currently discussing with him how we would circumvent the "virus" problem

Re: OODL: Re: [opencard-digest V1 #253]

2000-02-18 Thread DeRobertis
I don't think we have one. Especially since "international" usually implies that people from all over the world meet in this one same place, right? Yes, international usually means that. But they have sub-regionals and regionals first, and then the winners go on to the international one

Re: OODL: Interpreter/NuParser

2000-02-18 Thread DeRobertis
At 5:10 PM +1000 on 2/17/00, Adrian Sutton wrote: Also, OTDisAsm.cp contains the disasembler and CodeRunner.cp the actual emulator. Adrian: Okay, this will need to be improved on (I would think). Yes, it should be. But right now, I'm more worried about code. All the docs in the world won't

Re: OODL: FTP and web-paralysis

2000-02-18 Thread DeRobertis
At 11:15 AM -0800 on 2/18/00, Alain Farmer wrote: Alain: Is this possible for you, Eric? Are you running MacOS? Perhaps Linux? In the latter case, I am sure that Anthony and Adrian could suggest a Linux-based FTP program (quite probably open source and/or free). called 'ftp' Alain: What I

Re: OODL: Licence to use for code

2000-02-18 Thread DeRobertis
At 6:38 PM +0100 on 2/18/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote: I'm still investigating how we'd prevent someone from writing their own editing environment stack and saving that as a standalone to be able to sell an unfree FreeCard. Maybe we could require that if you make any changes and use the special

Re: OODL: Licence to use for code - Re:Uli

2000-02-18 Thread Tom Swell
Uli: I'm still investigating how we'd prevent someone from writing their own editing environment stack and saving that as a standalone to be able to sell an unfree FreeCard. Tom: Many of my shareware licenses specify that any future distribution of the software include the complete package

OODL: Alain-web-site and NuParser-speed

2000-02-18 Thread Alain Farmer
Alain: NuParser has its own background in our web-stack (CGI). Click on "FC-application" on the HomeStack page, then click on "interpreter" in the table of contents. Anthony: It did not work for me ... Alain: Are you still experiencing problems with our web site? I visited it a few minutes ago.

OODL: WebSite update

2000-02-18 Thread Alain Farmer
Update Visit our site: http://ufp.uqam.ca/ The formal syntax of the HyperTalk scripting language, namely: * the commands * the functions * the tokens of the above is now completed, except for the links of the tokens to the card of each token. I suggest that browse the HyperTalk

Re: OODL: WebSite update

2000-02-18 Thread MP0werd
In a message dated 2/18/2000 11:00:48 PM, you wrote: Visit our site: http://ufp.uqam.ca/ The formal syntax of the HyperTalk scripting language, namely: * the commands * the functions * the tokens of the above is now completed, except for the links of the tokens to the card of each token. I

OODL: Re: R/B trees

2000-02-18 Thread Yennie
Oh yeh... that's right. Die R/B tree, die! :) Anthony, you wouldn't guess who I met at the funeral ... Multimap! Not that I mind seeing them go, but what was so bad about R/B trees and multimaps? They are pretty standard, well-tested stuff and they are fast. Brian

Re: OODL: Licence to use for code

2000-02-18 Thread M. Uli Kusterer
Maybe we could require that if you make any changes and use the special exception, you must submit the changes back to the FreeCard group? Did you ask RMS about this? Anthony, If they have to submit changes, they won't be able to go on developing it, except maybe for a few additions to the

Re: OODL: Licence to use for code

2000-02-18 Thread M. Uli Kusterer
wouldn't that prevent some kinda freecard for applications, like VB for applications? Hi, then we'd have to LGPL it, instead of using the GPL, but besides that everything else would stay the same. They'd still be required to ship along the sources (which I think is only fair). My main

Re: OODL: Licence to use for code - Re:Uli

2000-02-18 Thread M. Uli Kusterer
Tom: Many of my shareware licenses specify that any future distribution of the software include the complete package (software, help files, readmes, etc.). If we could require that, then the above 'someone' would be distributing BOTH editing environments, and the readme file would tell the user

Re: OODL: Re:

2000-02-18 Thread M. Uli Kusterer
Oh yeh... that's right. Die R/B tree, die! :) Anthony, you wouldn't guess who I met at the funeral ... Multimap! I haven't really tried it much. I'll look into it once we have a release. Maybe by then we'll also have some more people with experiance in such things. But right now, it's not

Re: OODL: Licence to use for code - Re:Uli

2000-02-18 Thread M. Uli Kusterer
(3) most of the other open source projects are GPL, and require the spread of GPL to anyone using their source. If we become GPL too, then we will be able to take advantage of existing open-source code/projects. Projects like Netscape's Gecko, and MacPerl's OSA code, come to mind. Alain, I'm

Re: OODL: Alain-web-site and NuParser-speed

2000-02-18 Thread M. Uli Kusterer
Alain: My hypothesis is that this is because your browser/machine is not rendering the page in the middle-frame fast enough. The bottom-frame calls a function that it expects to find in the middle-frame, but it is not there yet. It is unsightly but it does not affect the process. Your case is the

Re: OODL: FTP and web-paralysis

2000-02-18 Thread M. Uli Kusterer
Alain: I was only vaguely aware of this Netscape upload ability that also puts up a std-file-dialog for selecting what we want to upload. Does it work well? Alain, actually, it even does drag and drop, it doesn't bring up a standard file dialog. It just takes the file you drop into the browser

OODL: XBlockFile status

2000-02-18 Thread M. Uli Kusterer
Hi, I just got those bugs out of XBlockFile. It does now correctly handle blocks and sub-blocks, including reading and writing them, and only loading maps when blocks in them are accessed. I still have to re-write the compacting function, but this shouldn't be too hard (though this certainly